Government Quotes

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

We need a new government that works.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now - at the highest levels of the federal government.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

How our government works... it doesn't.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

[Cuba's goverment] is an anti-American government.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

Big government makes small citizens.

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.